Do something if screen width is less than 960 px

Question

How can I make jQuery do something if my screen width is less than 960 pixels? The code below always fires the 2nd alert, regardless of my window size:

if (screen.width < 960) {
    alert('Less than 960');
}
else {

    alert('More than 960');
}

Answer 1

nope, none of this will work. What you need is this!!!

Try this:

if (screen.width <= 960) {
  alert('Less than 960');
} else if (screen.width >960) {
  alert('More than 960');
}

Answer 2

You might want to combine it with a resize event:

 $(window).resize(function() {
  if ($(window).width() < 960) {
     alert('Less than 960');
  }
 else {
    alert('More than 960');
 }
});

For R.J.:

var eventFired = 0;

if ($(window).width() < 960) {
    alert('Less than 960');

}
else {
    alert('More than 960');
    eventFired = 1;
}

$(window).on('resize', function() {
    if (!eventFired) {
        if ($(window).width() < 960) {
            alert('Less than 960 resize');
        } else {
            alert('More than 960 resize');
        }
    }
});

I tried http://api.jquery.com/off/ with no success so I went with the eventFired flag.

Answer 3

I would suggest (jQuery needed) :

/*
 * windowSize
 * call this function to get windowSize any time
 */
function windowSize() {
  windowHeight = window.innerHeight ? window.innerHeight : $(window).height();
  windowWidth = window.innerWidth ? window.innerWidth : $(window).width();

}

//Init Function of init it wherever you like...
windowSize();

// For example, get window size on window resize
$(window).resize(function() {
  windowSize();
  console.log('width is :', windowWidth, 'Height is :', windowHeight);
  if (windowWidth < 768) {
    console.log('width is under 768px !');
  }
});

Added in CodePen : http://codepen.io/moabi/pen/QNRqpY?editors=0011

Then you can get easily window's width with the var : windowWidth and Height with : windowHeight

otherwise, get a js library : http://wicky.nillia.ms/enquire.js/

Answer 4

I know i'm late to answer this, but i hope it is of some help to anybody who have similar problem. It also works when page refreshes for any reason.

$(document).ready(function(){

if ($(window).width() < 960 && $(window).load()) {
        $("#up").hide();
    }

    if($(window).load()){
        if ($(window).width() < 960) {
        $("#up").hide();
        }
    }

$(window).resize(function() {
    if ($(window).width() < 960 && $(window).load()) {
        $("#up").hide();
    }
    else{
        $("#up").show();
    }

    if($(window).load()){
        if ($(window).width() < 960) {
        $("#up").hide();
        }
    }
    else{
        $("#up").show();
    }

});});